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It's not just that it's not possible or doesn't help. The idea is actively harmful. It imposes responsibility for COLLECTIVE ACTION problems on the individual, who by very definition, cannot help.
1) It encourages people to waste their own time and energy making their own lives actively worse on the false premise that it will make some other life out there better, which it won't
2) It encourages people to guilt trip themselves or others. Since it's fundamentally hopeless, it tends to become more scrupulous and puritanical over time as people substitute ever more restrictive "rules" to follow in lieu of any evidence of actual benefit. Trying to guilt oneself or others to fight unwinnable "moral" battles is toxic, mentally and socially.
3) It distracts from the fact that real change of this kind can only occur on the institutional and systemic level. And it gives institutions an "out." Instead of changing themselves, they can just subject you to didactic PSAs about plastic straws or whatever
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1) It encourages people to waste their own time and energy making their own lives actively worse on the false premise that it will make some other life out there better, which it won't
2) It encourages people to guilt trip themselves or others. Since it's fundamentally hopeless, it tends to become more scrupulous and puritanical over time as people substitute ever more restrictive "rules" to follow in lieu of any evidence of actual benefit. Trying to guilt oneself or others to fight unwinnable "moral" battles is toxic, mentally and socially.
3) It distracts from the fact that real change of this kind can only occur on the institutional and systemic level. And it gives institutions an "out." Instead of changing themselves, they can just subject you to didactic PSAs about plastic straws or whatever
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